Argumentative Essay About Police Subculture

You succinctly described police subculture and its effects on the blue wall of silence. As you note, police departments are required to have ethics training that should prevent whistleblowers from being ostracized. However, recurrent training sometimes becomes ineffective when it is not taken seriously and there is no accountability by leaders. “The emphasis on ethical dilemmas and theoretical perspectives in training misses the mark because character development is neglected” (Wyatt-Nichol & Franks, 2009, p. 43). Detective Serpico’s life experience proves how quickly police departments can become complacent to criminality within its ranks. It is not so much as turning a blind eye to those police officers that are seen as rotten apples, rather